chess
[t͡ʃɛs]
The verdict
“chess” is uncommon German (frequency #58,665 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,665
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schach
Corpus desk
Index DE-chess · chess · German
chess · rank #58,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,665
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chefetage
Nearest frequency peer: Chefetage (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „chess“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- candle
candle
41,340 corpus weight
- Carls
Carls
41,339 corpus weight
- Chefetage
Chefetage
41,337 corpus weight
- chess
chess
41,336 corpus weight
- contents
contents
41,335 corpus weight
- conversation
conversation
41,334 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „chess“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chess |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ʃɛs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chess“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chess is uncommon German at frequency #58,665 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t͡ʃɛs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schach".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chess in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is chess, spelled C-H-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Schach
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chess appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We spent our days playing chess.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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